The start of Season 3! I've been looking forward to typing the next 7 chapters! These will probably be my longest and best yet! X3
Nero - No more Monster for you... *grabs arm*
Me - I swore off that stuff until Anime Expo... I'm drinking Red Bull 0.o
Vanellope - You haven't slept well in days! Go to sleep!
Me - Not until this chapter's up. *falls asleep*
Nero - Well I guess I'm doing reviews...
Ayla Spruce - Ray's technically not dead yet... You'll see what I mean in this chapter
Nero Loveless Highwind - So? You know why I did it... X3
deathhighliter - And ur review made mine. Ray's not gonna be a zombie either. You guys need to play some more JRPG ;P
BWH MC - I'm King Cliffhanger! X3
Vanellope - Here to start the chapter we have a special guest... THE ROCK!
Rock - ...
Vanellope - You heard him! CHAPTER! GO!
Rock - ...!
Chapter 31
The Reaper's Game: Day 1
Shibuya, Japan... A place which was once on the brink of destruction, was saved by a lone 15-year-old boy named Neku Sakuraba and his friends all because they got sucked into The Reaper's Game. That was just a short year ago.
This game takes place in a dimension parallel to the one you live in and all the players are people who died, but had the drive to continue living. So they're given the chance to do so by being issued a challenge. "Can you survive 7 days?" Most don't survive and the few that do either choose to become Reapers themselves or play again because the Conductor sees them unfit to come back to the RG. Although entering the game is easy, no one plays for free. Before the Game starts, the Conductor takes the one thing you care about most. This is mainly to drive the Players to do their absolute best.
The RG, or Realground, is your dimension, while the UG, or Underground, is where the Game takes place. The UG can see the RG, but the RG can't see the UG. These are the basics of the Game. Now I've got to get back to work. I'm the Composer after all, and the newest member of my game has finally arrived.
(A/N I left something out in the last chapter. The Real Shibuya is the RG and The Video Game Shibuya is the UG. It's how I pictured it when I played the game ;3)
Ray woke up in a daze in the middle of a huge cross walk in what could be assumed was Downtown Shibuya. He stood up slowly, but noticed something odd about himself. His clothes had changed. He was wearing his black "Nerds 4 Life" hoodie, his black Skull Candy wireless headphones around his neck and his gun-metal Nike Dunks with black jeans. He was even wearing a triforce armband on his right arm.
"I guess this was the last thing I was wearing in the real world. Now what do I do?" Ray asked himself as he looked around. "I can't remember what I'm even doing here. Last thing I remember doing was defeating M. Bison in GCS, but everything afterwards is a dud..." He thought out loud. "Hey can you..." He tried to ask the person next to him, but his hand slipped right through them. "What the?! What's going on? Sir, can you?" He tried again just to ghost through his entire body. "What the hell is going on here!?" He barked to the sky. His cry was interrupted by a catchy ringtone in his pocket. He pulled out an IPhone 5 that he assumed was his with a new message sign on the front. It read,
Reach 104. You have 60 minutes. Fail and face erasure.
Signed,
The Reapers
Suddenly, a surge of pain went through his hand as a blood red timer appeared on it. It was counting down as he stood there rereading the message. "What the hell?!"
His reply was a dozen red frog shaped graffiti symbols appearing in front of him. "What the?! What are you?!" He barked as he ran in the opposite direction of the symbols to find more. "SHIT! I can't get away! Take that!" He shouted as he tried to shoot lightning at the symbols, but his hand just sparked. "Just fan clucking tastic!" He swore to himself as he was transported into another dimension with four red frogs with weird legs that looked like they had been drawn graffiti style. "Nice froggie..." Ray chided as a frog jumped off him. "Damn... That hurts for a frigging amphibian." Ray thought to himself as he dodged another jump. "Gotta bounce!" He thought randomly as he was ripped from the dimension and zapped back to the busy Shibuya cross walk.
Ray dashed from the symbols, but they chased after him with a vengeance. "Shit... Shit... Shit!" He thought to himself as he reached a statue of a dog. "I can't run forever. I might die here..." "Hey kid! Form a pact with me!" a random voice said from the other side of the statue. "Who's there?!" Ray inquired as he stared at the kid before him.
He was tall and slender with spiky orange hair and blue eyes. He wore a sleeveless shirt with a funnel-shaped collar and an indigo stripe outlined with gold going down the middle, a yellow sweat band on his left arm, and white shorts held up by a loose-fitting belt. His shoes were black with an indigo stripe outlined in gold, similar to the style of his shirt. He was also wearing his signature indigo headphones and his MP3 player around his neck.
"Hurry up and say yes before we both die!" the boy barked as he held out his hand. "Ok. Yes!" Ray replied as he and the mysterious stranger had a beam of light surround them. "You're good as gone!" the kid barked as he lit the frogs on fire and destroyed them. "Nice work. Behind you!" Ray shouted as he pointed towards another group of frogs and shocked them out of existence. "You're not bad yourself." the boy spoke as they stood back to back and vaporized the frogs surrounding them.
"The noise shouldn't bother us now that we've made a pact. I'm Neku Sakuraba. You are?" the boy introduced himself. "Ray Hagane. Are we in Shibuya?" Ray asked Neku as they walked back to the busy street. "Technically. We're at the Scramble Crossing now." Neku replied as he rubbed the back of his neck. "I knew this looked familiar. My family lived here for 3 years with my grandpa before I turned 6. We moved when my dad got a transfer back to the United States." "Must have been rough." "Yeah... Wait... Why can you see me and no one else can?" Ray inquired as they reached the center of the Crossing. "Only Players can see each other. We're in The Reaper's Game." Neku answered as he looked at his hand again. "We've got 15 minutes to reach the 104 building or we'll get erased. Let's go!" Neku barked as he took off north towards the hugest shopping mall in Shibuya.
Ray ran ahead of him but was stopped by an invisible wall. "Argh! Damn it! What's with the wall?" Ray inquired as he looked at the pixellated barrier. "That reaper over there is guarding it." Neku replied as he pointed to a shady looking guy with a red hoodie. "Pact confirmed. Wall opened." the guy spoke to himself as the pixels went away. "Those guys usually throw up walls and make players do things before they can get through them." Neku explained as they approached the 104 building.
"Timer's off. Good riddance." Neku sighed as he looked at his now empty hand. "Just 6 more days to go..." "What were those things?" Ray inquired as he sat on a bench nearby. "Noise. Noise are a race of beings incarnated between the Underground and Realground planes of Shibuya. Because they straddle the border between the two planes, they are able to exact an influence in both, being physically present in the Underground, while capable of influencing people's thought in the Realground, typically resulting in negative emotions on the victim's behalf. Basically they're the Reaper's foot soldiers."
"Is every day gonna be this easy?" Ray inquired as he brushed some dirt off his pants. "Anyone who can't survive Day 1 doesn't deserve a second chance at life!" a rude female voice barked from behind them. A 18-year-old girl in a gloved sweater that shows her naval, with a white corset and a pair of black shorts along with knee-high white boots stood about 5 yards from the two boys. "What does she mean another chance at life? Neku?" Ray inquired as he shot up from the bench. Neku stayed silent. "So he brought you back again, Neku. What's the occasion this time? Just hanging around or helping out a noob?" She jested as she dialed a number on her phone and a huge bear-like noise symbol appeared and charged them.
"Get ready and don't hold me back." Neku warned as he pulled out six pins from his pocket. "I won't." Ray replied as he was drawn into another dimension with a huge bear-like Noise with graffiti-like arms, claws, and feet. For some reason, there was a song playing in the background. (Any song from "The World Ends With You soundtrack, preferably Twister) Neku was nowhere in sight, but Ray could feel his presence. "I'm gonna wreck it!" Ray barked unconsciously as he summoned his lightning blade and began slashing at the behemoth. While he dodged an attack, a disc of light hit him and he felt a sudden surge of power flow through him. When he struck the Noise this time it doubled over in pain and evaporated into static. "Noise Erased." an electronic voice stated as he was dumped out of the battlefield.
"Grr! Just who are you anyway newbie!?" She howled as she disappeared into thin air. "Phew... Lucky she can't attack us directly yet or we'd probably be in trouble." Neku sighed as he pushed the pins back into his pocket. "You use pins to fight?" Ray inquired as he walked over to his partner. "Yeah. They're called psychs. You should have some too and a Player's Pin." Neku replied as he pulled out a black pin with a white skull on it. Ray checked his left pocket and found some generic pins along with his own Player's Pin. "You can scan people's minds with that thing, but you can't scan Players or Reapers." Neku replied as he threw the pin in the air and caught it. He suddenly had a look of deep concentration on his face. "Open up your senses." He whispered to himself as he stood with his hands on his headphones. "Let me try that." Ray thought to himself as he threw his pin in the air and caught it. But when it touched his hand, voices began pouring in. "Six days left..." One voice whispered louder than the rest. "AUGH!" He barked as he dropped his pin and clutched his head. "RAY! RAY!" Neku shouted as Ray passed out from the overload.
"He's in Shibuya." Lan stated as he pulled out a note Ray typed up for the group.
If your reading this, then I'm presumed dead. If I'm not back at the end of the week, then say that I'm dead and not a moment before. I'm currently in an alternate world playing a dangerous game to take down another League Grand Master. There are 5 in total and I've already defeated one if you're reading this. The League's Leader is being guarded by the power of these Grand Masters. As soon as they're all gone, he should show up on Justin's scanner. I should have the full list when I return, but the foes we're about to face are going to be the toughest ever. When you're ready, head to the Statue of Hachiko in Shibuya and wait for me there.
Signed,
Codemaster Ray
Justin read the note aloud while the others stood attentive. "Everyone..." Ralph spoke after 5 minutes of comfortable silence. "We leave at dawn."
It took 3 days to type this masterpiece of a chapter. I hope everyone likes it. It's one of my longest and most detailed to date.
Nero - True...
Vanellope - It could've been better...
Me - *Death Glare*
Vanellope - I love getting under your skin. :3
Me - Just review before I make a little girl grow up 20 years before her eyes. *holds a line of code*
Preview: The Game goes into it's second day and Ray's memory isn't getting any better. It's a good thing Ralph shows up to clear up the missing links. Will he find Ray, and if he does, will their bond fill the hole in his memory where the Conductor took his entrance fee? STAY TUNED!